How To Start High-Dose Thiamine (Vitamin B1) 

Important to note: B1 increases demand for B2, but adding B2 may not do anything if there is an underlying iodine, selenium, and/or molybdenum deficiency. As most are iodine deficient and unaware of it, adding iodine-iodide such as Iodoral can be extremely helpful. Very important to check into this, as iodine (as well as selenium and molybdenum) is necessary to activate B2. A B1 therapy "crash" can be avoided or fixed by having enough of these other important cofactors.

You’ve Changed My Life! I’ve Lived in Chronic Pain for 20yrs and Never Knew I Had ALL The Symptoms of Fibromyalgia And Vitamin B-1 deficiency! I started Taking Vitamin B-1 and B Complex And My Pain Has Cleared Up and I’m Off the pain Medication! THANKYOU 😊

You're The Man mate! Three weeks into a mix of thiamine nitrate (500mg daily) and benfotiamine (600mg daily) the numbness, pins and needles and stabbing pains in my toes mainly has stopped, ceased, gone away! In a world of shamless greed, your selfless sharing of your knowledge is a blessing. I wish you every success in the marketing of your own products where even there your promotion of same is understated. You're an unusual legend.

EONutrition I just want to say thank you for spreading this information. Life has change ever since I supplementing B1. My POTS brought on by COVID and ADHD symptoms has improved dramatically. No more chronic fatigue, brain fog, my memory is amazing now. I never had a good memory before. I’m considering coming off my ADHD medication. Also my heart rate is normal some days without medication, its been less than a month btw. I’m not lying when I say this is most energetic and happy ever felt. Thank you once again 🙌🏾

I am taking a thiamine with the other b vitamins and niacin as well. Im taking potassium and magnesium too along with vitamin c. In just a few days, my digestion and elimination have drastically improved. I added chlorophyll as well. Im very pleased to have found your videos.

This video changed my life. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you! I started taking Benfotiamine this week after watching this video and it fixed symptoms that years of taking thyroid medication and consulting endocrinologist after endocrinologist didn’t address. Thank you!

Great great Video, very concise and gives me the confidence to try your protocol - I have just ordered your product on the back of it. I Recently went carnivore and saw some improvement but then after 1 week many of my symptoms worsened (muscle/joint pain, digestion) which after watching your videos I understand as oxolate dumping. Following you then led me to your all your detailed Thiamine information and my symptoms fit that, I have been chronically constipated for decades and have used enemas to manage it. Fibromyalgia symptoms have worsened since having the flu/covid several months ago. Many symptoms fit your B1 description, looking forward to trying it!

I like how you confidently plug your company but also give credit to your competition. It shows that you are confident your stuff is better/worth it.

Yes. This is exactly what I'm interested in. You're both a scholar and badass. Thank you.

It is because of your information I found in 2021, I started to take B1...I believe along with omegas, increasing red meat, try to reduce stress and homeopathy my health "feeling" has improved in digesting carbs better. Sally Norton and you also opened my eyes to oxalates which I cut out of my diet by 80%! What an improvement. Thank you so much.

I wish you had a million subscribers already. Everyone needs to know about this. I think the world would be a better place if we weren't so thiamine deficient.

This was so helpful as I’m just getting started after finding you a few days ago. Thank you!

You’re the man Eliot. Much appreciation!

Nothing but awesomeness. Thanks, E.O.

This is such a good and much needed video, thank you so much!

Nice video Elliott. Always informative and well presented

OMG! I just found this channel and started looking into it recently. I had what I could only imagine was fibromyalgia (never DX) but had pain EVERYWHERE didn't even want to wake up and get out of bed most days, and had brain fog and fatigue. Started eating No Sugar No Grain and taking the recommended brand B vitamin (thiamine), magnesium-threonate, and normal vitamin D and most of the pain went away. Went from a constant 7-8/10 to an intermittent 2-3/10, disk issues are there but don't prevent me from living. Now I feel like I'm in my 20's. There are channels that are good and then there are channels that are a public service, this is the latter. This is the place to start for those who are looking for answers and don't want to get caught in the prescription drug cycle!

I've been doing this to combat long covid induced Parkinson's and I'll confirm that symptoms get worse for a few weeks before it gets better, I better slowly

Dude you are awesome! I love how transparent you are. And you are not shoving supplements at us or anything. I’m a new supporter & look forward to trying these things out :)

This man channel is very informative and powerful.

Mate you saved my life quality! 3 days in using B1 combined with an organic multivitamin powder and I feel like a brand new man! A part of me is surprised that this therapy is not making more waves...another part knows exactly why it probably doe$n't ...keep up the great work!!

I got into Health Food in the 1970s when I was in junior high school and the first book that I bought was Carl Bragg's book who was Jack LaLanne's mentor and got Jack LaLanne well because he was sick. Along the way I have realized that stresses cause your body to use up several vitamins and nutrients and you may not know this and are suffering because you're eating Comfort foods high in sugars and are processed with terrible ingredients added including the incorrect types of vitamins and mineeals which make it worse. I just ran onto this guy's videos but I've been watching Dr Eric Berg's videos on RU-vid for quite a while and I suggest you check him out too.

Thank you for making this much needed video.

Great information. Very well detailed. Thank you

Thank you for your help and information. My energy and overall health seriously changed for the better when I started high dosing Thiamine❤

Checking in again to revise your info, no wonder I'm struggling with Benfotiamine, my capsules are 1,000mg and I've been taking 2 daily!

Just in time! I needed this. Thank you!

I appreciate your honesty and straightforwardness about this vitamin an brand names. ❤

Elliot - your presentations are so complete and informative - a real blessing. Your videos on oxalates have been helping me tremendously. The symptoms you go over in your videos on B1 deficiency match my history of symptoms and food choices. I am thinking your protocol for handling B1 deficiency will be as majorly beneficial to me as your low oxalate protocol. Extreme thanks to you for all your care and hard work!

Benfotiamine has outperformed TTFD at increasing thiamine levels in the brain in trials and demonstrated higher bioavailability. It was also effective at reducing amyloid deposition in the brain, whereas TTFD was not.

I greatly appreciate this video!

Thanks very much for your help, keep up the great work

This is probably spot on! I was diagnosed with me/cfs fibromyalgia and I was declining terribly! Was in the hospital Dr for days because I could barely walk! And severely weak. I started LDn and b12 shots and came to life in 3 weeks!!! It’s 3 years later and still better but not cured and I do the diet the supplements the therapist the therapies!! You name it and still not where I was before but I also had surgery for gallbladder and hysterectomy for endometriosis and getting there so anyone with just one of these conditions I could see the b1 helping even more!

Great info !!! I became an alcoholic working on sobriety ! However I notice a lot symptoms of B1 deficiency! Such fatigue, shortness of breath,lost of appetite,loss of muscle mass gastrointestinal issues, started a B1 regimen of 💯 mg daily my initial symptoms decreased after a week on B1 my diet always Included B1 however alcohol was depleting my levels of B1 because I also drank on a empty stomach one of the major symptoms was shortness of breath 24/7 I thought it was my alcohol withdrawal symptoms however ran up on info on the internet and I got me some B1 asap its been 2 weeks of B1 and my symptoms have decreased a lot my appetite is back I make sure that I eat foods rich on B1 always Plus doubled my dose to 400mg as I said I am struggling with alcoholism so when. I am drinking I always make sure I drink plenty of water and food Rich in B1 however sources tell me alcohol does let your body absorb B1. As well so don't take it when boozing as I said I am working on the issue of alcohol however I resumed my regimen when sober it's a struggle however I want to point out and emphasize that alcoholism was the main cause of my B1 deficiency!!!B1 has helped quite a lot in these 2 weeks my shortness of breath is decreased my appetite is back my sleep is getting better so I will continue B1 and will continue to work on the main cause of B1 deficiency Alcohol !! Thanks for your B1 types and ways of intake

This is super useful! Thank you!

Thanks for sharing the video!

Thanks for posting this. I bought the workbook a week ago but haven't touched it. With my brain fog and horrible concentration it seems like a huge task. This will help me ease into it.

Thank you for all your videos. God bless you. Your videos have helped me a lot.

Just ordered the thiamax from your website, I want to say thank you for all your info on this subject I have a feeling this could change my wife’s life & mine too as a result 🤞🏼🤞🏼

I have just purchased your supplements , and hope my improvements continue . I had had some real benefits just using 3 b complex tablets daily . It's been decades since i had energy at night and didn't feel like i was burning up / temp wise . I had had the heat issue explained as energy bit being correctly produced . And now it's all starting to work i believe , hence why I've purchased your b vitamins from your site in support of you . Fantastic work , advice and knowledge . Thankyou ever so much Elliott 👍😀💯

i just received my bottle of Thiamix couple days ago. I Started with half broken capsules, because i wanted to make sure i didnt feel negative systems as u described in video, but in that nothing negative happened, just few hrs ago, i took a whole capsule; Hoping to feel better from having very low energy, hence, extreme fatigued, brain fog, cant focus, poor quality life style do to these. I take lots and lots of vitamins for years, nothing seem to help...i hope this is the miracle cure i been searching for what seems to be forever. I will keep u posted. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I'm so glad I watched this. Since starting B1 my anx has gotten worse. Knowing this will help me tough it out.

Great video, many thanks.

Thank you for this ... super human and helpful

I have ordered your Thiame protocol package and also take magnesium, potassium and zinc. So desperately want it to work for me because almost my whole adult life has been ruled by my poor digestive health. Thanks for this video.

Perfect video to answer my question on side affects. Just started taking TTFD and on day 3 with a headache. Getting ready to say gooodbye to 4 years of chronic fatigue. So thankful to have found your chanel after trying so much else. Excited to see whats to come 😊

Thank you, so much for the information. I pray that I'll have a son like you one day. Blessed are his parents.

Just excellent research

Okay, thanks for clarifying the side effects. I took a higher dose yesterday, I felt really irritable. I will stack it with magnesium and potassium next time!

Thank you for the help I just ordered some trying it for the first time! 😊

Excellent excellent information.

I just bought two thiamega's from your website. (37 yr old 1 year sober alcoholic suffering from intense cold spells, memory loss, confusion attacks, irritability, slight ataxia (hanbds) and.... icing on the cake, insomnia). I'll follow up after I finish a bottle!

Greetings from Germany. A thousand thanks for your information about thiamine. I started since one week to take every day 250mg Thiamin HCI vegan best quality, plus magnesium. The following agonies are already over after one week: severe chronic arthritic knee pain, heavy legs especially in the evening, numb feet, general fatigue. (Of course I do daily exercise anyway, sports, gymnastics) I have as a pensioner unfortunately not so much money to purchase your protocol pdf, but I just wanted to thank you very much.

I wasnt getting any where so i lissten to your client and the coment and started to b1 hcl started taken 300 mill three times aday with benfotimine . It is starting to work . Nerves calming down , axiety going. Thankyou .

Thank you MUCH !!

Thanks for valuable informations

I've had severe fibromyalgia for 37 years and really appreciate how you call it what it really seems to be, dysautonomia. Before seeing your videos and due to neuropathy, I have been taking 150 mgs. Benfotiamine for several years with no change. I recently raised it to 600 mgs. and it helped my neuropathy some. I raised it to 1,200 mgs. and that is helping the depression, and I would do just about anything to ease that, since it is far worse than my worst physical symptoms. The problem is that my neuropathy was originally caused by B6 toxicity from taking a B50 complex that was prescribed for me. B6 does build up in the body, unlike the other B vitamins, and I have been told by the neurologist to never, ever take more than the RDA of B6 again. She told me she wished she had a dollar for every case of B6 poisoning she'd treated that year! It took a year of severe insomnia and other symptoms for the pain to even become bearable, and I am afraid to take B complex again, but realize I cannot continue to take such high doses of thiamine without taking the whole B complex also. Has anyone else had this issue and if so, what did you do to handle it?

Thanks! Day :3 on benfotiamine- symptoms bad, stayed in bed most of the day….just shuffling along - planning on improving!

Thank you. Subscribed.

So glad thiamax is available in the USA

Thank you for this as I felt awful on 100mg B1 and was so jittery and anxious I got scared and stopped taking it. I will split the capsule and start again.

What if I just eat more seafood and more meats? I've been adding salmon 1-2x a week, shrimp 1x a week, steak 2-3x a week, eggs bacon (organic) and sausage (organic) raw butter and cheeses. Salad, cauliforous veggies and acidic fruits. Works for me I feel great! And I live in the desert so I started drinking cactus water and water with lemon & salt to help with electrolytes especially in the summer heat.

I subscribed after watching this video!

I needed to hear this. Today was my first day of B1 at 100mg and had diarrhea. I was discouraged as I thought this vitamin wasn’t for me. Now I know to build slowly rather quickly. Thank you.

Thanks Elliot for all of your advice. I have started taking 1500mg of Thiamine HCL and just after 3 days I am feeling the benefits of less Brain Fog and increased energy. I jumped straight in with a high dose, in for a penny in for a pound I say lol.😁

I started taking 600mg Benfotiamine w 1000 mg TMG along w Quicksilver methyl B, lots of MG and K citrate before bed. It pushed my liver to detox ...caused a bad headache..but it shot my HRV up 20 points on my Whoop. I dropped the Benfotiamine and TMG in half and felt great and the HRV went up even a bit more. There's something to this!

Nice work! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wow thank you 🙏🏼❤️

Great content Elliot, very insightful and thought provoking - thank you for sharing. I have recently started taking TTFD without the additional supplementation as I was not aware of this. I have a history of finding certain supplements difficult to digest/absorb and I assume it’s the quality. Can you recommend any specific brands/ compounds for the B complex, potassium and Magnesium? Think I saw Mag malate in another video? Many Thanks!

Thank you for you elaborate explanation and guidelines. I have a question, is it possible to overload with B1? Mine is about 2 times higher then the norm (187 with upper end norm level 85)

Benfotiamine HAS HELP ME with nerves in leg ,feet . thank you 4 this info .

Thank you so much!

Thanks for info. I can tolerate the vitamin b1 and b12 but anything else cause major issues specifically during the night. I cannot sleep. Sleep poorly. I took a complex and it stuffed me up. I got a complex injection at the pharmacy and the same issue. I tried ca pantothenate (100mg in the morning) and was stuffed for 3 days. Very unpleasant. I'll stick to B1.

Always such a pleasure listening to your videos !! My husbands blood pressure is normal but his pulse rate varies between 90-110 bpm. I am wondering if B1 supplementation would help with this ?

Thank you sir!

Thank you !🙏

Good information thanks. I have Parkinson’s and have found that the vitamin 1 therapy really works wonders. Starting on 1/15/24 I will be leading a group of 20 folks who have Parkinson’s through this protocol. You are recommending magnesium as a supportive nutrient which is good but do have an opinion as to what form of magnesium would be best for this purpose? My guess is either magnesium glycinate or threonate. What are your thoughts. We are planning to start this protocol on 1/15/24.

Hi Elliott. Whit the clinical notes , there's an error under niacin and nutritional interaction it says the same thing as what is said about riboflavin (B2) it does not say anything about Niacin interaction. Which has made things more difficult for me when trying to identify what nutrition I'm lacking. Thanks

awesome!!

Great content ! Elliot , I’m looking at giving this protocol a go as have nerve damage and PoTS blood pooling issues from prescribed pregabolin for anxiety ( now off ) Could this protocol help blood pooling in feet ? Also last year took high doses of p5p b6 to lower prolactin and unsure if this added to nerve damage . I’m scared to take b complex with b6 in it invade it’s due to b6 toxicity . Is there any way around this without taking b6? Thanks

Diagnosed with barely controllable asthma, then got body slammed by a ninety pound dog who broke my ankle- totally-and required a heart check up before surgery where I found out the left flap isn’t closing properly. So I’ve added CoQ10 which is included in my whole food vitamin but it doesn’t say how much. I tried high doses of quercetin when i was told it would relieve allergy symptoms but cut back to regular dosage when it didn’t help the congestion, I take it to get the zinc (balanced with copper) into the receptors and block the spike and I take NAC and Bromelain to kill the spike-Bromelain also helped with the swelling of the broken ankle and an extra magnesium seemed to help against the pain because I refused to take that oxy whatever that the surgeon prescribed although I did white knuckle it for a few days. I also take D3 & K2m7 and Lipasomal Vitamin C almost a G when I don’t have oranges or grapefruits. The Pulmanologist tried antibiotics to see if I had an infection and I drank Kifir and made Borsht with good yogurt and ate good pickles for my stomach flora until after a month and a half she decided it wasn’t helping. Then I decided to cut out possible allergens so no more Kifir, yogurt, eggs, (no more French toast with fresh mandarin juice) or milk or mayonnaise (no more tuna with pickles and lettuce on organic sourdough sandwiches)🤷‍♀️ but I did eat some spicy pickles. My whole food vitamins have that L-Rutin you mentioned but do not say how much and also the 3 liptase, Protease, and amylase and B laterosporus which may be related to your magasporebiotic? The whole food vitamin is by herbtonics the label the enzyme and probiotics as a blend so I don’t know the actual amounts and so I bought some extra pills like the CoQ10 to make sure I got. Enough to help my heart-the heart blend has resveratrol too. And the molybdenum from Krebs complex and iodine. I’m mostly vegan now but I eat king Oscar Jalapeño sardines on sourdough, dried cocoanut shavings, walnuts & almond butter for protein. I eat avocados with 1/2teaspoon of Braggs amino acids and fill with lemon juice -and bananas. I’ve limited my diet. It’s been suggested that I’m allergic to mold because I get better in the summer. The county made me move out of my toy hauler and into the main house which is full of mildew so i cleaned and insulated a little ‘studio’ which seems a bit better but I’m still waking up gasping and coughing for an inhaler🙇‍♀️Please suggest a supplement regime to help me heal?🤷‍♀️ the only thing that cleared my lung congestion was prednisone which will eat my bones and so not doable🙇‍♀️this started about 3 years ago and I was tested for the virus a half dozen times before they diagnosed me asthmatic. Me I-just want to get well… do you think the magasporebiotic would help? I did try some cordacepts but it didn’t seem to help I don’t think I took it very long because the doc put me on that antibiotic so I stopped and never tried it again….🤷‍♀️

Thanks for the info! I have a ton of signs of B1 deficiency. I got put on an SSRI which helps but it hasn’t fully resolved the issues. I read that adding B1 to an SSRI can improve it (I also read SSRIs leach B1). I’m taking 100mgs of B1 HCL right now (only 3 days so far) but am switching to allithiamine when I get it in the mail. Do you have any suggestions on how to switch over with that dose? I also notice a worsening of symptoms but then it seems to improve throughout the day. Is that sorta what happens? Im glad you mentioned that in your video.

Got to give you a 10/10 for your straight out gate info ❤ it. Stirred my interest 😂. Great commentary. Have to give it a bash. Hope you didn't hypoventelate 😅 .

I've had insomnia for years. Recently started taking brewer's yeast, B1, and B12 daily in the evening. Been sleeping like a baby again. Also camomile tea with lemon and raw honey too.

Thank you for this video…I was looking for the amount of Thiamax to take compared to Benfotiamine, and now I have an idea. It would be nice to not have to consume 8-10 capsules of Befotiamine when I could take maybe 2 Thiamax..or a few more. 😊 Benfotiamine has taken away a lot of non-diabetic peripheral neuropathy…decreased fatigue, increased HCL in stomach, and a general feeling of wellness while I am on Benfotiamine.

Thank you so much, Elliot. Yet again. You recommend B complex, pottasium and magnesium, would you be so kind to suggest how much would be a good place to start with all three? Thank you for your kindness.

Thank you!

Had chronic fatigue syndrome for the last 3 yrs tried B1 had no success, after watching your vid & finding out there’s different types with different absorption rates going to try again.. I’ll be ordering some of your Thiamega & try that with some extra magnesium & potassium to back it up.. I’ll let you know if it works in a couple of months time, fingers crossed..

Hi Elliot, I have chronic Dysbiosis and anxiety, but Benfotiamine seems to be helping a lot on a low dose. However, the detox reactions are getting intense. Do you think it would hinder my progress if I moved to one day on - one day off (until I can handle more). I have already diluted the compound so it is more palatable

I really really like the fact you don't slander other supplement companies at the end and make the video all about a sales pitch, if anything this makes me trust your advice and want to try your supplement even more. One question I have is, I suffer from long covid/lyme/mould related illness. I'm not as bad as some and manage to function daily but suffer brain fog, and simply cannot exercise when previously I was military and trained in crossfit. My histamine levels are through the roof and I find that thiamine sets me off. I've heard that thiamine can eventually benefit my histamine related issues but how do you get over the initial hump? Thank you

I just started watching this presentation. Hopefully you'll be telling people about Benfotiamine, the highest bioavailable form of B-1.

@EONutrition Elliot what form of Thiamine do you think is the best for epilepsy?! Love your content!!!!

Can you take these dosages indefinitely or do we taper off after a while? And how much potassium should be taken?

A very interesting segment my son. Irish Bob appreciates good and useful health related information. Many blessings and thanks again😇🤗😎🍀🇮🇪🇨🇵🦾🩺🥂

You are answering alot of questions. I have worse case of Fibromyalgia in the world plus Lupus. The double whammy ‼️😕 Thanks 💕🙏

I have just discovered your channel and I think it is great however you may wish to slow down the rapidity of your speech. I am old and I have to replay sections over and over to catch what you are saying. I could read the script but I need to the context. Cheers 😊

I appreciate the short, simplified info on this subject! Quick question... I understand ttfd / lipothiamine is fat soluble, but not in the conventional sense. Does it matter weather it’s taken with a fat source, or on empty stomach? Thank you!

Hey bro- new to your channel and love ❤ it so far. I have off and on pancreatitis- can b1 play a roll in aiding this type of inflammation? I believe I’ve read before that b1 is essential in the health of pancreas cells. Any input would be greatly appreciated- ty for all you do.

thank you for this video, I’ve ordered a short course worth of B1 (TTFD), to test whether this therapy shifts anything for me. cross fingers

Started with 1/4 of a 250mg hcl pill. Was plenty to start with, especially since EXTREME sensitivity to everything is one of the main reasons I’m taking this.